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From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
	Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
	Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reset: update help text
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:31:59 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTiknvWE9Fe3u88Jbis4Cgxd5ubqaR6MzYOJZ-AtM@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110329210457.GA14031@elie>

2011/3/30 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:
> The description does not make it obvious to me how these two (--merge
> and --keep) differ.  I think the intent of the options are:
>
>  --keep:
>        start working on a different commit, carrying over local changes
>        (like "git checkout")
>  --merge:
>        return to <commit>, cancelling a merge-like operation that
>        creates some unmerged and some clean index entries
>
> Maybe something along these lines could be ok starting point?
>
>        OPT_SET_INT(0, "keep", &reset_type,
>                "move to <commit>, carrying over local changes in working tree",
>                KEEP),
>        OPT_SET_INT(0, "merge", &reset_type,
>                "return to <commit>, cancelling failed merge or cherry-pick",
>                MERGE),
>

To be honest, I have no idea what the above describes. I read 9bc454d
(reset: add option "--keep" to "git reset" - 2010-01-19) and figured
that --keep is like --merge except that "git diff" before and after
the reset is exactly the same, is it? I have never used --keep before.
-- 
Duy

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-31 12:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-29 13:20 [PATCH] reset: update help text Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2011-03-29 13:29 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-03-29 21:04 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-03-31 12:31   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [this message]
2011-03-31 18:42     ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-03-31 21:44       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-31 21:57         ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-02  8:43       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-03-31 18:45   ` Junio C Hamano

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